Comments on: All The Ways To Learn French Words For Kids http://www.equatorialtours.com/learn-french/all-the-ways-to-learn-french-words-for-kids Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:38:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: dkartuzinski http://www.equatorialtours.com/learn-french/all-the-ways-to-learn-french-words-for-kids/comment-page-1#comment-21 dkartuzinski Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:31:59 +0000 http://www.equatorialtours.com/learn-french/all-the-ways-to-learn-french-words-for-kids#comment-21 Hi. My son is 13 years old, about to be 14 years old, and I have relatives in France that would like him to learn French. He is doing better but here are some of the things that we've done and notes about his response to them in terms of his learning: 1. The best thing that he has responded to is having me read French childrens books out loud and then have him repeat the words. The thing about French childrens books is that they are mainly conversational so it's perfect. The key with this is to make sure all the words get defined, as otherwise I noticed he would get a blank look on his face. Within a class room setting this could be a lot of fun. My English teacher from the 7th grade, Mr. Sheehy, he had us do something he called Chinese Schooling and we learned the Gettsyburg Address and so forth - which I still know 23 years later! - If you had the students repeat your line in unison out loud, it would be a riot and all the kids would participate. 2. The next thing which helped was pointing out objects as we walk around and having him repeat the word and make sentences. Before he could make simple sentences he would speak the examples out in Frenglish! So if the word was "chat", (cat), he would say, "The chat is black". I had him do many sentences as I want him to go from concept in his mind to word and not the other way around. 3. He likes to watch movies in French. I don't know if this is helping or not. 4. When he has a very basic vocabulary and can say hello and so on, the next step will be a french course. Other people think flash cards and other games are good and fun, but if you do flash cards and so I would recommend making it part of it to create sentences or examples with the word. Otherwise, I noticed you are teaching them without comprehension, though you may get duplication. I started on trying to find a good solution and started a website which I am still building. Within the next fews months I will put up a basic free course, but in the meantime you can check out the reviews of some of the courses I looked at. Let me know if you have any questions. I'd love to hear your feedback after you start the process.<br><b>References : Hi. My son is 13 years old, about to be 14 years old, and I have relatives in France that would like him to learn French. He is doing better but here are some of the things that we’ve done and notes about his response to them in terms of his learning:

1. The best thing that he has responded to is having me read French childrens books out loud and then have him repeat the words. The thing about French childrens books is that they are mainly conversational so it’s perfect. The key with this is to make sure all the words get defined, as otherwise I noticed he would get a blank look on his face.

Within a class room setting this could be a lot of fun. My English teacher from the 7th grade, Mr. Sheehy, he had us do something he called Chinese Schooling and we learned the Gettsyburg Address and so forth – which I still know 23 years later! – If you had the students repeat your line in unison out loud, it would be a riot and all the kids would participate.

2. The next thing which helped was pointing out objects as we walk around and having him repeat the word and make sentences. Before he could make simple sentences he would speak the examples out in Frenglish! So if the word was "chat", (cat), he would say, "The chat is black". I had him do many sentences as I want him to go from concept in his mind to word and not the other way around.

3. He likes to watch movies in French. I don’t know if this is helping or not.

4. When he has a very basic vocabulary and can say hello and so on, the next step will be a french course.

Other people think flash cards and other games are good and fun, but if you do flash cards and so I would recommend making it part of it to create sentences or examples with the word. Otherwise, I noticed you are teaching them without comprehension, though you may get duplication.

I started on trying to find a good solution and started a website which I am still building. Within the next fews months I will put up a basic free course, but in the meantime you can check out the reviews of some of the courses I looked at.

Let me know if you have any questions. I’d love to hear your feedback after you start the process.
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]]> By: pat l http://www.equatorialtours.com/learn-french/all-the-ways-to-learn-french-words-for-kids/comment-page-1#comment-19 pat l Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:27:59 +0000 http://www.equatorialtours.com/learn-french/all-the-ways-to-learn-french-words-for-kids#comment-19 try and make it fun do things they would like cook different kinds of food go on a walk see different things then name them.<br><b>References : </b><br> try and make it fun
do things they would like cook different kinds of food go on a walk see different things then name them.
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]]> By: kirstinkiwi http://www.equatorialtours.com/learn-french/all-the-ways-to-learn-french-words-for-kids/comment-page-1#comment-18 kirstinkiwi Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:25:59 +0000 http://www.equatorialtours.com/learn-french/all-the-ways-to-learn-french-words-for-kids#comment-18 my 6th grade french teacher just played a lot of games with us and we sang some weird french songs that taught you words. by the end of that class i knew the basics of french. but then i ended up taking spanish. but anyways games and songs worked pretty well<br><b>References : </b><br> my 6th grade french teacher just played a lot of games with us and we sang some weird french songs that taught you words. by the end of that class i knew the basics of french. but then i ended up taking spanish. but anyways games and songs worked pretty well
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]]> By: Kelly http://www.equatorialtours.com/learn-french/all-the-ways-to-learn-french-words-for-kids/comment-page-1#comment-17 Kelly Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:23:59 +0000 http://www.equatorialtours.com/learn-french/all-the-ways-to-learn-french-words-for-kids#comment-17 make up games involving the french words...thats what my french teacher does<br><b>References : </b><br> make up games involving the french words…thats what my french teacher does
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]]> By: ? Marjorie ? http://www.equatorialtours.com/learn-french/all-the-ways-to-learn-french-words-for-kids/comment-page-1#comment-16 ? Marjorie ? Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:21:49 +0000 http://www.equatorialtours.com/learn-french/all-the-ways-to-learn-french-words-for-kids#comment-16 <b>What's a fun way for kids to learn French?</b><br>I'm teaching a class on French next summer for middle/high schoolers (roughly ages 10 or so up to 15), and I need some fun ways to teach it. They're going to be learning just basic things, like colors, food, animals, greetings, basic words like please and thank you, that sort of thing. Any suggestions? What’s a fun way for kids to learn French?
I’m teaching a class on French next summer for middle/high schoolers (roughly ages 10 or so up to 15), and I need some fun ways to teach it. They’re going to be learning just basic things, like colors, food, animals, greetings, basic words like please and thank you, that sort of thing. Any suggestions?

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